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Learning Goals and the Goals of Learning: Teaching in the Age of AI with Aaron Bauer

Learning Goals and the Goals of Learning: Teaching in the Age of AI with Aaron Bauer

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Aaron Bauer is a software engineer and one of Jane Street's few
developer educators—a role that splits his time between writing
code and teaching other people how to write it. Before joining
the firm, he taught computer science at Carleton College,
including four straight terms online during the pandemic. In this
episode, Ron and Aaron discuss what it takes to teach engineering
inside a company with its own language, its own version control,
and its own editors, and what changes when an LLM can do the
exercise for you. Along the way, they consider the underrated
power of a live lecture; why the text editor is still the
software engineer's home base; using editor telemetry to find out
how AI is actually changing developer workflows; and how Jane
Street rebuilt its intern curriculum around testing, design, and
code review now that producing the code is the easy part.

You can find the transcript for this episode on our website.

Some links to topics that came up in the discussion:

Foldit and AlphaFold

Carleton College Computer Science

Flipped classroom, active learning, mastery learning, and
cognitive load

"The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard" — Mueller &
Oppenheimer on handwritten vs. typed notes

Merlin and ocaml-lsp

ecaml — writing Emacs extensions in OCaml

Bonsai — Jane Street's OCaml web UI library

OxCaml

Claude Code output styles — the "learning" mode Aaron
describes (note: Anthropic has since moved this to a plugin)

Jane Street's tech internship